Anyone else ever deal with Tidal "support"?


Well I think I'm about to cancel my Tidal subscription based on their lackluster  "support". First of all, there is no phone support option, as they stated in their email. But they guarantied they'd take care of me. I realize this is the way things are going these days, but if I'd been able to TALK to these guys, we'd have had it figured out in 30 minutes, instead of 30 days!

Long story short, after a month of going back and forth with them, sending screenshots, speed tests, uninstalling the app, re-installing the app, deleting logs and data, they come back today to tell me they no longer support their app in a Windows 7 operating system. Ok,, I get it. But I described my setup in my INITIAL email to them! I think that's just their way of copping out.

When I ask for answers about how they determined this to be the problem, I just get a standard, "We don't support or troubleshoot Win 7 anymore." I never got any technical answers on my issue.

It's just frustrating to get zero answers to my questions...by email.

FWIW, my issue is after a few songs, it will drop out every two seconds, play music for two seconds, etc. etc. I initially thought it was buffering, but realized it was playing ok, just dropping out. 

This only happens on the MAX resolution setting. I discovered this when they told me to try LOW res streaming. I told them I never considered streaming in low res, that's why I got Tidal in the first place, for the HIGH res. What's the point of listening to anything lossless? Viola, streamed fine in LOW res.

So my temporary fix, until I switch services, is to install an older version from my Downloads folder, and just not update it. That seems to work for the time being. I will miss the "lyrics" option of Tidal. It's fun to break out the PA system and sing along sometimes. If anyone knows of a hi-rez service with scrolling lyrics, let me know. 

Thanks for letting me rant. Just curious if anyone else had any dealings with them,

Bob

 

bobdg2000

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Yeah I get the OS is old, but I gave them as many details as I could initially. Tidal version, OS version, browser version, VPN etc. I just wish they'd stated that from the get-go.

Well it seems people have differing views of Tidal support...and me laugh

I KNOW Win 7 is old and unsupported, but it is on my media/music PC. I'm not running my Quickbooks or TurboTax on this system. It's only for movies & music. 

A while back when trying to watch a movie on Amazon Prime, I got the message that it wouldn't play, because my OS wasn't supported anymore. They TOLD me what the issue was.

I'm guessing one of the automatic updates in Tidal pushed me over the edge so it wouldn't work in Win 7 anymore. My beef with them is that even though I specified I was using Win 7, they strung me along for three more weeks with the false hope of getting it running again. Then out of the blue, just told me that it's unsupported.

Like I said, a previous version is still working, I might just stick with that. Or, as mswale stated, I might use the web version.

I work in field service, so I'm always on the phone with my customers. I just kind of miss it from everyone else these days...